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Selections From John Wu's Translation of the Tao Teh Ching

Selections From John Wu's Translation of the Tao Teh Ching

Therefore the sage puts his own person last, and yet it is found in the foremost place; he treats his person as if it were foreign to him, and yet that person is preserved. The highest excellence is like water. The excellence of water appears in its benefiting all things,

Capitalism is a Bogeyman

Capitalism is a Bogeyman

The control of the production of wealth is the control of human life itself.” Hilaire Belloc, The Servile State Capitalism is a bogeyman. There is a type of capitalism rightly condemned by my heroes Chesterton and Belloc, but it was first and foremost a type of capitalism born of privilege

Mushrooming to a New Religious Understanding?

Mushrooming to a New Religious Understanding?

Tuesday mornings are hard on me for some reason, but this morning, delight hit me from three angles, thanks to this one essay. Delight One: Bookman It comes from The University Bookman, one of the first subscription journals I read (my Dad subscribed and I started reading it when I

Dry January, Tradition, and the Magisterium

Dry January, Tradition, and the Magisterium

Andrew Huberman has gone near-teetotaller lately in his rhetoric. Awhile back, he warned that, if a person averages just one drink a day (seven in a week), he's courting accelerated cognitive decline (and other health issues). He said the safe maximum might be six per week. As the

Don't Follow the News

Don't Follow the News

The drumbeat grows louder: more people realize the corporate media can't be trusted and smaller media don't have the resources to provide full coverage. On top of that, we know that the corporate media has never been trustworthy, including "trusted men" like Walter Cronkhite.

A Lot of Thinkers Have Intuited that We Have Two Minds

A Lot of Thinkers Have Intuited that We Have Two Minds

McGilchrist deserves the credit for connecting neuroscience to the intuition

Science and Magic

Science and Magic

The historian of intellectual history, Frances Yates, wrote extensively about the realm of magical pursuits in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, in particular about hermeticism and its legendary eponymous source, Hermes Trismegistus. Yates points out that Renaissance magic--through characters such as Ficino, Giordano Bruno, Campanella, and Cornelius Agrippa--reached its apex

Examples of GKC's Right-Hemispheric Brain Overly Stifling His Left Hemisphere

Examples of GKC's Right-Hemispheric Brain Overly Stifling His Left Hemisphere

A Work-in-Process

We Judge Based on Our Own State

We Judge Based on Our Own State

For each man judges others by his own state, that is, by what he is himself--in virtues or sins. Simeon the New Theologian, Practical and Theological Precepts (Writings from the Philokalia, p. 109)

Tolkien’s Elves Embody McGilchrist’s Ideal Brain

Tolkien’s Elves Embody McGilchrist’s Ideal Brain

I think Tolkien’s perfect proto-McGilchrist form is found in Rivendell and Lorien, the last kingdoms of the elves. The elves, I believe, display the proper relationship between the hemispheres, almost to perfection: the musical and poetic and playful nature of the right hemisphere served by the more mundane functions